Kiryat Shprinzak in Haifa continues to renew
Chairman of the Haifa District Committee, Ruth Schwartz:
We see great importance in promoting urban renewal projects on the path of evacuation and construction, as this is the answer to the great shortage of housing units in the country. The District Committee strives to ensure that these projects are of high quality from a planning perspective and are also economical, so that they are implemented and do not remain as plans on the shelf.
The Haifa District Committee decided to submit an urban renewal plan that includes 600 housing units, commercial space, and public buildings.
The Haifa District Planning and Building Committee, headed by Ruth Schwartz, decided to submit the urban renewal plan for the "Park Complex" in the Kiryat Shprinzak neighborhood in Haifa. The plan, initiated by the Rike company, covers a total area of 17 dunams, and is located at the corner of Drech France and Shalom Kassan streets.
The plan includes 600 housing units to be built in 30-story towers, and in another 10-story building. Of the total housing units, the plan includes 180 small apartments (30 to 80 square meters in size), in order to provide a response to a diverse population.
In addition to the housing units, the plan includes 1,500 square meters of commercial space that will be integrated into the lower floors of the new buildings and will form a commercial frontage towards France Street. In addition, the district committee decided to double the public space submitted in the original plan to approximately 1,000 square meters for the establishment of kindergartens and daycare centers.
As part of the plan, an additional pedestrian connection will be established from France Road towards the neighborhood garden "Eli Cohen Garden". In a discussion at the district committee, planning alternatives were examined to improve the integration of the project into the planned environment, and additional commercial space was added towards the park. Currently, the complex contains 121 housing units in 5 4-story housing buildings, which will be vacated in favor of the new project. The plan joins another renewal plan in the neighborhood "Stroma Complex", which includes 2,400 housing units, which is in the process of being submitted for public objections.
Haifa District Planner in the Planning Administration, Ronen Segal:
This is an important plan that is part of the renewal process of the Sprinzak neighborhood. Along with other plans in various stages of development, the Sprinzak neighborhood, like other neighborhoods in the city, including Kiryat Eliezer and Neve David, will change its character into an intensive urban neighborhood that will include urban construction with shops and vibrant life along the streets. The plan offers good planning solutions that address the location and topography while incorporating solutions in the public aspect - public spaces and the expansion of France Road.
The plan was prepared by the firm of Tzamir Architects and Urban Planners Ltd.
Haifa Municipality approves destructive plans for the future of the city, especially for Haifa residents' inherent right to an open landscape = a reminder to the mayor who stated that "the landscape is an inherent right in a city like Haifa because of the unique topography that must be taken into account"
Fixed fixed but of course doing the opposite. In the low-lying coastal and mountain neighborhoods, towers of dozens of stories are being built that will form a concrete wall that will block tens of thousands of apartments from their right to an open view.
There is no thinking and there is not even an examination of what all the planned towers will look like together, what they will cause, what kind of shadow they will cast on other houses.
The municipality does not require a detailed transportation review, a detailed landscape review, or an environmental review.
Everything overlaps from the land of overlap.
How many believe this will happen in the next 25-20 years? Not me.
More and more 30-story buildings are being built, which is a 100-meter-high wall that will hide the entire sea from hundreds of residents in the French Carmel. An urban disaster, not to mention the huge traffic jams in neighborhoods without public transportation with 2-3 long, slow bus lines.